Kelly joined Belharra in January 2022 as VP, People & Operations. She is a solutions-oriented change agent and lifelong learner with over two decades of operational and strategic biotech experience in public and private companies.
Passionate about organizational development and culture, Kelly has held roles in Sales, Marketing, Global Commercialization, Employee Engagement & Communication, and Operations. Kelly joins Belharra from Jazz Pharmaceuticals where she most recently served as Executive Director, Strategic Operations. During her tenure at Jazz, she also held diverse leadership roles ranging from Chief of Staff to Head of Global Employee Engagement & Communications, and Director of Marketing. Before it was acquired by Myriad Genetics, Kelly was at Crescendo Bioscience, a molecular diagnostics company focused in rheumatology. She started her life sciences career at ALZA Pharmaceuticals before it was acquired by Johnson & Johnson and spent time in JnJ’s Pharmaceuticals Group Strategic Marketing (PGSM).
Kelly received a BA in Psychology from UCLA and an MBA from Wharton where she majored in Human Resource Management. She is currently a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania where she is studying organizational leadership and learning.